Torit Language Center Montessori provides exposure to Mandarin, Arabic and Spanish from infancy onward for our enrolled children. Such language exposure, in addition to the research-supported benefits outlined below, enhances our cultural curriculum and peace education. Torit's choice of the three languages of Mandarin, Arabic and Spanish accords with current global trends in terms of numbers of speakers of languages other than English. These languages are often in the top non-English spoken languages. Further they are each from different root language families (as opposed to Spanish and French, for example, which are both Romance languages). The selection of languages from different root language families ties to the first of three research-supported benefits of early second language exposure on which we focus at Torit. These include:
